Redditch Model Railway Club will hold its fifty-first exhibition event in March rather than its usual September this year.

The event will take place this weekend (Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 March) at Trinity High School on Grove Street in Redditch Town Centre. On Saturday, it will be open from 10.00 until 17.00, and on Sunday from 10.00 until 16.30.

The Club has decided to move the show forward by six months on a permanent basis, after researching among existing and potential visitors and finding out that they have other priorities in September and that March would be more popular. It has hosted the show in September for the last two decades.

The show will see exhibitors from all over the country run more than thirty stands. These will include layouts in gauges from N to 0, brought to the event from locations including Spalding, Scarborough and Liverpool. There will also be full trade support and railway modeling demonstrations.

Layouts on display will include Arrowmouth, which won an award for the club after being built over a period of five years and features in the video below. Abbotswood and Norton Junction, Gracetown Bank, Lapping Works and Temple Bridge are among the other well-known layouts on display.

Event information:

• refreshments available
• tickets £6
• under-16s free
• free souvenir exhibition guide for all

The venue is:

•  a 15-minute walk from Redditch rail and bus stations; or
• fifteen minutes’ drive from Junction 2 on the M42 (via Access 1 on the town centre ring road).

The Redditch Model Railway Club formed in June 1967. It currently has twenty-five members and meets on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 19:00 until 22:00 in its own club rooms in Redditch. More details are available on its website.

Guy Craddock, Exhibition Manager, said, “This will be the 51st Redditch Model Railway Exhibition which has come a long way since the first in 1967 and each year the event is proving to be very popular with visitors who travel from all over the country to the show. We hope by moving back to earlier in the year after a 20-year gap many more will visit this year’s show to help make the event even better”.